This is a very lucid and thought=provoking look at the trend of offshore outsourcing. Will this really be the peak year for the trend?
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Why Outsourcing Will Plateau
One (poorly written) perspective on the outsourcing movement from someone who receives the “benefits” of the outsourcing. Company sends jobs to India; Company looses contract, but not for some high-minded morals.
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Lessig on Eldred vs Ashcroft
Lawrence Lessig argued against the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1999. They lost (and lost on appeal to SCOTUS), which was a terrible thing for public domain works. One of the arguments lost in the (what little) reporting was done on this case is this one:
This point is rarely made, but it has far-reaching implications, and it was a key theme of our brief. When Congress decides to extend the term of existing copyrights, it is making a choice about which speakers it will favor. Not only would upholding the CTEA mean that there was no limit to the power of Congress to extend copyrights and further concentrate the market; it would also mean that there was no effective limit to Congress’s power to play favorites, through copyright, with who has the right to speak.
He looks back not with regret, but with an almost unbearable responsibility. A very poignant article from an obviously passionate man.
Link (via kottke.org)
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AIM is spyware
Apparently, installing AIM installs the spyware program Viewpoint Media Player. I’m glad I don’t use this program, although I did find Viewpoint software on my machine. I wonder if this is installed with Netscape. Oh, and my favorite part, AIM inserts free.aol.com into IE’s Trusted zone so they can push software installs without having to get user permission. That’s a little iffy, if you ask me.
Just more reasons to use Mozilla.
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Who said that?
Heh… I love when CNN busts themselves. I can’t wait to hear the silence from this one.
Is 5.6 percent a low figure, or a high one? Depends. If only 5.6 percent of hamburgers are discovered to contain meat, that’s way low. But if 5.6 percent of teachers are using their students as drug mules in elaborate Asian heroin importing schemes, that’s sort of high.
We’re comparing apples and oranges here. Or junkies and burgers. What if we compare similar or identical figures on the same subject, and from the same source?
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John Kerry Can Burn in Hell
Kerry was in Vietnam.
The Kerry committee’s final report, issued in January 1993, delivered the ultimate insult to history. The 1,223-page document said there was “no compelling evidence that proves” there is anyone still in captivity. As for the primary investigative question ?what happened to the men left behind in 1973?the report conceded only that there is “evidence . . . that indicates the possibility of survival, at least for a small number” of prisoners 31 years ago, after Hanoi released the 591 P.O.W.’s it had admitted to.
With these word games, the committee report buried the issue?and the men.
He basically left his comrades, the men that swore to die for each other, behind. What an ass. The author of this article certainly did his research.
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The Book Group
Has anyone in the States ever heard of this?
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Casshern – Japanese movie
If anyone sees this come to America or sees a Region 1 DVD, PLEASE let me know. I don’t understand a word of Japanese, but this looks visually incredible.
Link (via BoingBoing)
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Alton Brown as Doc Hittori
I saw the USA version of Iron Chef USA. Please God, please, don’t let this version be this camp.